Public Health Nurse Sr.

Title: Public Health Nurse Sr.

State Role Title: Registered Nurse II

Hiring Range: $75,500 - $85,000

Pay Band: 5

Agency: Virginia Department of Health

Location: BLUE RIDGE HQ

Agency Website: www.vdh.virginia.gov/blue-ridge

Recruitment Type: General Public - G

Job Duties

Blue Ridge Health District (BRHD) serves the counties of Albemarle, Fluvanna, Greene, Louisa and Nelson along with the City of Charlottesville. Serving the approximately 250,000 residents of our district, we are committed to advancing the health equity of our citizens and staff.

BRHD is seeking to hire a Public Health Nurse Senior to serve as a program expert in communicable diseases. This position would also provide support to other nursing programs throughout the district. Specific responsibilities include case management of active tuberculosis cases, communicable disease investigations, and Newcomer Health program management. Additional support may be requested in family planning, sexual health, and immunization clinics, along with emergency response.


We see this position developing program goals, objectives, policies and procedures, serving as one of the primary contacts for staff and external inquirers about the program/service, and promoting the program to increase utilization and public awareness. This Senior Nurse performs nursing assessments, lab tests, takes measurements, develops and implements care plans, and administer meds. May supervise support staff. A large component of this role involves case investigation with subsequent case management.


Program Leadership – provides leadership by supporting the State and District visions, missions and goals compiles with organizational procedures and policies. Develop policies and plans that support individual and community health efforts. Develops quality improvement indicators and core measures as part of the process to enhance public health programs and services. Supports research across disciplines related to public health priorities and population-level interventions. Applies the requirements of patient confidentiality, human subject protection and research ethics into data collection and processing. Identifies opportunities to use public health informatics skills to improve public health programs and business operations. Demonstrates ethical standards of practice in all aspects of public health and public health nursing as the basis of all interactions with individuals, communities, and organizations. Recommends a course of action in response to identified ethical issues. Supports the development of interprofessional teams and workgroups. Uses a comprehensive set of relevant variables within and across the systems to measure health and public health conditions. Uses policy analysis methods to align with public health nursing practice and public health issues. As required monitors VEDSS, ESSENCE and other epidemiology technology to identify trends/outbreaks and participates in vaccine preventable illness response and may collect specimens and/or administer vaccinations to children and adults. As required in support of an emergency, serves as a key member of the emergency epi response team and assists the local emergency planner in responding to outbreaks and other “all hazards” incidents. May be responsible for communicable disease investigations and assisting with outbreaks in schools, the community, nursing facilities and other congregate care settings (including but not limited to prisons and homeless shelters). May serve as the subject matter nursing expert for communicable disease issues in the district.

Community Liaison – promotes public health awareness, health risk reduction and preventative health in the community through community screenings, mass clinics, community programs, and community events. Informs, educates and empowers the community regarding health issues. Maintains knowledge of current community resources and provides inter and intra agency collaborations to meet needs. Serves as community liaison by meeting with community groups, employers, committees and task forces to promote public health awareness, risk reduction and resource development. Identifies/participates in community activities that enhance public knowledge of services. Assists with the community health assessment and improvement planning processes through partnerships with community services and providing information regarding the locality; assess the quality of various data collection methods used to conduct a comprehensive community/population assessment. Assi